Amid rising unemployment, inflation and poverty in the 1830s, Philadelphia taxpayers believed welfare scammers were bleeding…
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The Federal Reserve is being characteristically cautious.
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Most ideas about Jewish culture in the United States come from Ashkenazi traditions, but there’s a vast landscape of Jewish…
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The most comprehensive assessment yet of a powerful greenhouse gas shows which countries are driving the increase, and which…
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On Flag Day, a historian of religions in America explains how Pledge of Allegiance, which honors the American flag, is part…